History Heartwarming / StarTrekVoyager

* The end of "Riddles", from season six. After getting shot and suffering brain damage, Tuvok becomes completely unlike himself and starts to enjoy things like jazz and cooking, as well as bonding with Neelix. When they find a way to cure him, he doesn't want to go back to the way he was, but Neelix convinces him.

'''Admiral Paris:''' Tell him... Tell him I miss him. And I'm proud of him.\\

* The scene in "Homestead" when [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XT89qGhv41U Tuvok dances for Neelix]] gets this troper every time.

** Tuvok's description of his own role as a father to his children, and his extremely blunt correction when Neelix asserts a father would have nothing to teach a daughter.

* The scene in "Homestead" when Tuvok dances for Neelix gets this troper every time.

--> '''B'elanna''(Just before they initiate their plan to escape the void)'':''' See you on the other side.

* From the moment that she comes aboard, Kes treats the Doctor like a person. The Starfleet crew and the Maquis and even Neelix mostly treat him like an inconvenient tool much of the time at this point, but she legitimately cares about the Doctor and respects him as an individual, to the point where, when the crew think they've found a way home for the crew but not the ship in "Eye of the Needle," she's the only one concerned about his fate.

* In "Day of Honor," when Neelix invites B'Elanna to use him as a verbal punching bag, as a solution to her rages, and B'Elanna rejects the offer. The fact that she can lash out at her captain, her oldest friends, and her lover, but just has too much of a soft spot for Neelix, the most peaceful person on the ship...is odd, but oddly believable, and touching.

-->"Thank you for this opportunity, Captain. All I've ever wanted was to live up to my full potential, to hone all my skills, expand my abilities, to help the people I love."

* Tuvok "dancing" for Neelix as he's about to leave Voyager for good in ''Homestead''.

** Especially sweet considering that line is a [[CallBack Call Back]] to Dark Frontier Part II, when Janeway tells Seven "Sweet dreams" after gently but firmly ordering Seven to regenerate; this following Seven telling Janeway she didn't expect to be rescued after [[spoiler: rejoining the Collective, since it had appeared to the ''Voyager'' crew that she had abandoned them]].

-->"Sweet dreams."

** Especially apparent in season five episode "Bliss", during which ''Voyager'' is stuck inside a massive telepathic organism that has convinced the entire crew--except Seven and Naomi--that it's a wormhole that will take the ship directly to Earth. At one point, Seven picks Naomi up and carries her. ''Awwwwww.''

** Especially apparent in season five episode "Bliss", during which ''Voyager'' is stuck inside a massive telepathic organism that has convinced the entire crew--except Seven and Naomi--that it's a wormhole that will take the ship directly to Earth. At one point, Seven picks Naomi up and carries her. N'awwww.

* In "The Gift", Kes' powers suddenly surge and she is forced to leave the ship before she inadvertently destroys it as she [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence becomes an energy being]]. The episode's title comes from her last line: ''my gift to you''. In gratitude to the ship's crew, she sends the ship about 10,000 light-years ahead, significantly reducing their journey. And just before the credits roll, Tuvok dresses in his formal Vulcan robes and lights a meditation candle in the window of his quarters as a tribute to her while the camera pans out into space.

** While throwing a party to celebrate the achievement, the crew of Voyager makes Reg an honorary crew member.
--->'''Tom:''' To my dad. It's nice to know he's still there. And to the newest member of the ''Voyager'' family, Reginald Barclay... whoever you are.\\
''(everyone raises their glasses)''\\
'''Janeway:''' Here here! To Mr. Barclay!

* In "The Gift", Kes' powers suddenly surge and she is forced to leave the ship before she inadvertently destroys it as she [[AscendToAHigherPlaneOfExistence becomes an energy being]]. The episode's title comes from her last line: ''my gift to you''. In gratitude to the ship's crew, she sends the ship about 40,000 light-years ahead, significantly reducing their journey. And just before the credits roll, Tuvok dresses in his formal Vulcan robes and lights a meditation candle in the window of his quarters as a tribute to her while the camera pans out into space.

-->"Thank you for this opportunity, Captain. All I've ever wanted was to live up to my full potential, to hone all my skills, expand my abilities, to help the people I love."

* In "Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy," the crew have to view the Doctor's fantasies on the holodeck, in order to help fix the malfunction with his experimental daydreaming subroutines. Most of it is simple wish fulfillment. The Doctor being an action hero and getting all the girls. But just as they're leaving the holodeck, a new scene comes up that makes Janeway pause to watch. The dream version of herself is congratulating the Doctor on some sort of metal she's just presented him. To which he responds:

* "Flashback" takes us back to when Tuvok served on the ''Excelsior''--showing how Captain Sulu reacted to [[StarTrekVITheUndiscoveredCountry Kirk and McCoy being arrested and put on trial]].

* In "Tinker Tenor Doctor Spy," the crew have to view the Doctor's fantasies on the holodeck, in order to help fix the malfunction with his experimental daydreaming subroutines. Most of it is simple wish fulfillment. The Doctor being an action hero and getting all the girls. But just as they're leaving the holodeck, a new scenes comes up that makes Janeway pause to watch. The dream version of herself is congratulating the Doctor on some sort of metal she's just presented him. To which he responds:

-->"By the way, did I tell you how smart he is? I've already taught him how to knock small planets out of orbit."

--->"I think it's safe to say no one on this crew has been more... obsessed with getting home than I have. But when I think about everything we've been through together, maybe it's not the destination that matters; maybe it's the journey. And if that journey takes a little longer, so we can do something we all believe in, I can't think of any place I'd rather be or any people I'd rather be with."

* At the end of "Endgame", [[spoiler: Where after seven years, Voyager finally gets home.]]
** The look on Tom's face when he hears his newborn daughter over the comm.
** The last line of the series — Janeway softly echoing her order "Set a course ... for home." — is the [[BookEnds same as in the first]] episode, (part two of the series opener "Caretaker").
** Harry's speech, as the crew debates whether taking the opportunity to go home or dealing a serious blow to the Borg Collective:
--->"I think it's safe to say no one on this crew has been more... obsessed with getting home than I have. But when I think about everything we've been through together, maybe it's not the destination that matters; maybe it's the journey. And if that journey takes a little longer, so we can do something we all believe in, I can't think of any place I'd rather be or any people I'd rather be with."

'''Janeway:''' Three years ago, I didn't even know your name. Today I can't imagine a day without you.

* The "message from Starfleet" subplot from the episode "Hunters". Starting with the crew receiving a garbled message from that, when cleaned up, is far less professional and much more personal than they expected, to realizing that the "message" was actually letters, to the distribution of the letters as they're received and deciphered.

* The entirety of "Drone" from beginning to end. That a ridiculously overpowered Borg drone from the 29th century can be made adorable is a true feat of production[[hottip:*:none of which should be attributed to the writers who have a habit of accidentally falling into good stories rather than writing them]]. The fact that by the end of the episode the loss of "One" is enough to cause a genuine tearjearker in-universe for Seven and the rest of the crew that get to know him, only drives it home.

** The look on Tom's face when he first hears his father's face is especially great.

--> '''B'Elanna''': Maybe this is the collective's new strategy. They don't assimilate any more they just show up and look helpless.